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The Kuki-Zo tribal radical successful ethic conflict-scarred Manipur are organising a wide rally connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) to question a governmental solution from the Centre earlier the State completes a twelvemonth nether the President’s Rule.
The Central regularisation was imposed successful Manipur connected February 13, 2025, 4 days aft Nongthombam Biren Singh resigned arsenic the Chief Minister. There are speculations that an NDA authorities volition beryllium formed soon.
On Tuesday (January 13, 2026), the Kuki-Zo Council called upon the “entire Kuki-Zo wide public” to enactment successful the rally to beryllium held successful each Kuki-Zo-dominated districts to fast-track “our governmental solution”.
“The Kuki-Zo radical person endured sedate and unprecedented atrocities – large-scale demolition of homes and places of worship, and the continued displacement of implicit 40,000 guiltless people. In presumption of these realities, it has go intolerable for the Kuki-Zo radical to proceed nether the aforesaid administrative arrangement. Accordingly, the Kuki-Zo radical person formally and democratically demanded a Union Territory with a Legislature from the Government of India,” the assembly stated successful a statement.
The assembly rued the government’s inability to present a factual governmental solution astir 3 years aft the taste struggle betwixt the Kuki-Zo and Meitei radical broke retired connected May 3, 2023.
The Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum volition organise the rally successful Churachandpur district. It requested each schools and institutions to stay closed connected the time of the rally arsenic a people of solidarity.
Kuki-Zo organisations person been adamant astir their Union Territory-like “separate administration” demand, archetypal flagged by the MLAs from the community. Of the 10 Kuki-Zo MLAs, 7 beryllium to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
As the Centre continues its efforts to signifier the authorities successful the State, these 10 MLAs are nether unit not to articulation it. Most Kuki-Zo organisations are against their joining the government.
The MLAs, leaders of the Kuki-Zo Council, and representatives of the equipped groups which signed the Suspension of Operations astir 2 decades ago, held a closed-door gathering successful Guwahati connected Tuesday to reiterate the Union Territory request for the community.
After the meeting, they unanimously adopted a five-point resolution. These included pressing the Centre to expedite a governmental colony to fulfil the request of the Kuki-Zo assemblage for a Union Territory with legislature and capable law provisions for the extortion of onshore ownership.
